786 
the field. 
the r u ££& 
^ose duty will be *0 ,} oUald M'Mahon, of the 
™ s a: 
^ O'trklur, on the 5th of Anguat, for 
V *K Mauritius steam-tnuiaport, now fitting at Southamp- 
ton lms been taken up to convey the 34th regiment Jrom 
Portsmouth to Corfu. She is to call at Queenstown to 
embark a detachment of the 57th for the same destination 
She will afterwards convey the whole of the o/th regiment 
to the seat of war in Turkey. . v . 
A great many men have volunteered from the 48th boot 
to join the 57th, under orders for Turkey. 
SOLDIERS’ WIVES AND FAMILIES. 
Malta, Auo. 9.— The Rubicon transport, with a number 
of distressed soldiers’ wives and children, returned from 
the East, sailed for England on the 4th, Dr. Robe, late ot 
the Bulls, and now attached to the staff, being in charge. 
Cambridge Asylum for Soldiers* Widows, Kingston, 
Sdrrey.— T his institution (erected in memory ot his Koyal 
Highness the late Duke of Cambridge) was visited on 1 hursday 
afternoon by their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam- 
bridge and Princess Mary, and on Friday bv her Royal 
Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, who ordered a gratuity 
for^ each of the twenty -one inmates. 
OUR FRENCH ALLIES. 
waggons as to be impassable for troops. The Tiirkish army, 
which is placed in tchdon between the Danube and Bucha- 
rest consists of 85,000 men. About 5,000 men will be 
stationed near Bucharest as a corps of observation. 
L’Angleterre et la France, 
Heines Sceurs d<5sormais, 
Oui, Reiues Soeurs h jamais; 
Au Czar, 
Donncnt le cochemar ; 
Et brisant l'espdrance, 
Du sauvage insolent, 
Oui du Cosaque sauglant, 
Au Turc donnent l’inddpen- 
dance. 
Loin de la Patrie, 
M6re bien cbdrie, 
Sur le Termagant, 
Voguons en chantaut; 
Et vers le Baltique, 
Au pas gymnastique, 
Que vapeur et vent. 
Nous poussent gaiement. 
Ecumant de rage, 
Nicolas sauvage. 
Nous sommes les fils 
De ceux d’Austerlitz. 
De la infirae grfcve 
Partis, quel beau r£ve ! 
Cinquante ans apres, 
Sur uu bord Anglais. 
Cct liomme hdrolque, 
Dont. le nom raajestique, 
Amfcne aux combats, 
Noub n dit, Soldnts, 
Que man occur vous suive, 
En Mer Noil- ou Baltique, 
Fait des veeux pour nous, 
J'ai los yens sur vous. 
Le chef intr<*pide, 
Dout la voix nous guide. 
Nous a dit, Enfauts, 
Soyaz confiants. 
Vos annes terrible*. 
Nous font iuvincibles. 
Le batuillon noir 
Fern sou devoir. 
Au champ de batoille, 
Lorsque le mitraille, 
Vomira la mort, 
Celui que le sort, 
ltendra pour victime, 
D'une voix sublime, 
S’dcrira, Vainqueur, 
Vive I’Empdreiu* ' 
[The above song was composed by u private of the 12th 
Chasseurs. — E d.] , 
K,ei..— The French ship of the line, Donawcrth, 90 guns, 
and the screw corvette, La Place, put into Kiel Bay on the 
10th iust. They are loaded with provisions for the French 
fleet. Both vessels are also completely manned and armed 
Downs, Tuesday.— Yesterday the French frigate, Pers6- 
verant arrived, and cast anchor off Deal from Cherbourg 
and Calais, with reinforcements and stores for the Baltic. 
Malta.— The Montezuma, Panama, and Albatross, brencti 
steam-frigates, arrived on the 8th iust., from Toulon in four 
days, bringing 881 seamen for the French fleet, to fall up the 
vacancies of such as have served their time, replace invalids 
Ac. ; these vessels are also heavily luden with warlike and 
other stores. _ c , 
Address to the Allied Armies.— In \ urna Marshal bt. 
Araaud issued the following address to the army on the 
30th of July:— “Soldiers of the allied armies J—We shall 
soon advance into the territory of our enemy. I rely on 
vour obedience, on your bravery, and steadiness m the fight. 
The task we have to complete is no light one. File enemy we 
have to encounter is strong and numerous, fhe forty years 
of peace passed by us in promoting commerce, industry, and 
the arts, have been spent by him m the study of the art of 
war and in military preparations. From jour bravery and 
energy France and England await a victory. The eyes of all 
Europe are on you. Show yourselves the worthy sons of 
your brave fathers. We march into the land of the enemy, 
resolved ou victory. As conquerors must we sec our father- 
land, or never more return.” . 4 - . . 
Orders have been eent to Toulon to have the steam-frigate 
ChriBtophe Colomb, which has been employed as a transport, 
fitted out as a vessel of war. 
THE TURKS AND RUSSIANS. 
(Continual from page 7G2.) 
The Out Deutsche Post gives a letter from Cracow, of the 
7th, which says “ We learn, from an almost certain source, 
that the Emperor of Russia is to arrive towards the middle 
of the month in the village of Maczki, on the frontier of 
Gallicia, and preparations are being made there in secret lor 
his reception. It is thought that this journey to a village 
close to the Prussian and Austrian frontiers has a great 
political importance, particularly as of late uu interview has 
been spoken of between the Czar and the King of Prussia m 
another frontier village.” _ . 
The Akbar of Algiers announces that the Emperor ol 
Morocco lately convoked a grand divan, to whom he an- 
nounced his intention to place at the disposal of the Sultan, 
during the present war, an annual subsidy of thirty millious 
and 12 000 horses. The divan, the cheriffs, and the popu- 
lation generally loudly approved of the determination of 
Abderahman, who has already sent nine millions to Constan- 
tinople, on hoard a Portuguese steamer, and is freighting 
merchant vessels for the conve yance of the bo raes. 
THE WAR IN EUROPE. 
Newspapers at Devna—Id a letter from a private soldier, 
published in the Sunderland News, the writer says— When 
It man gets a newspaper you would laugh to see the crowd 
gather round him, as if they were going to eat him, all are so 
anxious to hear the news." i B 
The news from Wallacbia may be told m a few worda. 
On the 3rd and 4th there were still a few R u H8ians—l) oba.b y 
deserters— to be seen in the streets of Bucharest. The army 
is in full retreat, but moves along the Bide and cross loads, 
as the highway is so crowded with artillery anil bagg g - 
THE WAR IN ASIA. 
Kirs August 6 — The state of the Ottoman army is every 
day improving. Provisions amve in abundance, and disease 
and mortality have sensibly decreased. The morale of the 
troops has been raised ujjder an mteUigent and e^rgetic 
command. The mushir appears disposed to assume the 
offensive, and the soldiers are desirous to march against the 
enemy The Bashi-Bazouks have had a new chief, who has been 
able to gain an ascendancy over them, and who Las already 
shown them what they may do with d.sciplme in different 
recent rencontres, where, although mfenor in number, they 
have put the Cossack cavalry to the route. Desertion 
continues in the Russian army; Almost every day ten oi 
fifteen deserters from the Russian Mussulman l militia 
arrive here, as well as some from the troops ot the line. 
From the information obtained from them it appeare that 
the Russians have on the frontiers four regiments of infantry, 
one batullion of chasseurs, one of sappers and miner* six- 
teen squadrons of dragoons, 2,500 Cossacks, and 1,500 
irregular cavalry. They are said a so to have eighty pieces 
of cannon, but this number is evidently exaggerated, unless 
they take into account the artillery of the Cossacks winch 
is not very formidable. The Russians have a total of 1 / .000 
troops at the outside on this part of the frontier ; if there- 
fore the muchir assumes the defensive, according to hu 
wish and the desire of his troops, there is reason to hope 
that the army of Anatolia will conduct itself in a mannei 
worthy of that of Europe, and that the campaign will be 
attended with favourable results." 
Head-Quarters of tiie Turkish A rs t -~ Ha ? 01 
Velikoi, July 16.— On the 1st of this month the Russian 
garrison of Gumri marched from that fortress, and having 
passed the Arpa-tchai and the Knrs-tchai two men .on the 
Turkish territory, took up a position two hours distant ft om 
the Ottoman avant-guard, posted m Soobattan and Hadgi 
Velikoi, about four hours' march from Kars. On the 3rd 
instant the whole Turkish army at Kars, with the excep- 
tion of five battalions of reilits, broke up the camp, and 
marched to Hadgi Velikoi, where the entire forces are now 
concentrated. In the course of the week the Turkish left 
wing stationed at Ardahau arrived. The Turkish ai my is 
about 50,000 strong, and the Russians 30,000. On WetaM- 
dav the 12th July, it was decided m the luikisb 
camp to give battle, and at half-past one in the 
afternoon the army left its position, and advanced 
for an hour and a half. The Russians advanced 
from their encampment, and formed in line of battle. 
The Turkish Baslii Bazouks (irregulars), under General 
Kmeti (Ismail Pasha), advanced and opened a desultory fire 
and the Russians sent out their skirmishers. At the moment 
when the action commenced a most terrific storm broke o\ei 
the heads of the army, and a deluge of rain poured down. 
The Russian army at once retired to then; former position 
whilst the Turks remained tin ee hours on the ground during 
the entire storm, and then slowly retired Since the 12th 
the army has been daily alarmed by the Russians who 
advance in serried columns, but, on seeing the Turks drawn 
up in battle, they invariably retreat. Their object is evi- 
dently to fatigue tlie Russian troops, and then to make a 
night attack. General Bebutoff commands the Russians. 
Thirty pieces of cannon are ou their way to Kars, but they 
will arrive too late to be of much use. As it is the Tuikish 
artillery is in fine condition, and strong enough for immediate 
necessity. I trust sincerely that my next will recoid the 
signal discomfiture of the Russians, and the advance of the 
Ottoman army into Georgia. 
TREBIZOND, July 18.-Great activity prevails i at present 
in the port of Samsoun. The loading of wheat and bailey 
is going on without cessation ; eighteen vessels are anchored 
in the port, and all freighted for Constantinople or Varna 
Should the port of Odessa be closed against commercial 
vessels, Samsoun is destined to assume a considerable im- 
portance in what concerns the exportation of com. Theie 
exists in this country exceedingly fane wheat, which would 
find au easy sale in the market of Marseilles and the noith of 
France. 
they parted, and the use of the razor had been abolished 
on every part of the faces of the officers and men, and the 
natural hah* allowed to grow in the fullest luxuriance. No 
intelligence had been heard of any of the ships at present 
in the Arctic regions, but some news of them may be 
expected about the end of September next. The Diligence 
had very disagreeable weather during her passage home. 
She is expected to be paid off at Woolwich in the course of 
the present week. . , . , . 
Postage. — The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty 
have arranged with her Majesty's Postmaster-General that 
all letters received from officers of the royal navy serving on 
foreign stations, for conveyance to the United Kingdom, upou 
which the full amount of postage has been paid in advance 
in penny postage stamps, will be treated as paid by the Post- 
office authorities. 
A Hint to the Yankees. — The Boscawen, <0, Captain 
Glanville, having received a number of bauds from the 
steam-sloop Spiteful, Commander Kynaston got under way 
from Spithead, with a fine breeze, and sailed for Grey town. 
The experiment ordered to be made by the First ’Lord ol 
the Admiralty in this ship by Mr. Edward Duke Moore ol 
Ranton-abbey, Staffordshire, of brewing good beer for the 
men from concentrated wort, has proved eminently success- 
ful as have other experiments in soldiers barracks ; but 
where condensed water, so abundant in steamers, has been 
used, the result has been even more gratifying. 
Pembroke Yard, August 12. — We have Lad another 
launch here, that of the Falcon, a 16-gun screw-steamer, 
which took place yesterday, successfully, before an unusually 
large number of spectators. She was named by Lady \\ aide- 
grave, now staying at the adjacent fashionable watering 
place Tenby. The following are the dimensions Ot this 
splendid little craft: Extreme length, 184 feet ; length be- 
tween the perpendiculars, 160 feet ; ditto of keel for ton- 
nage 148 feet lg inch ; breadth extreme, 31 feet 10 inches; 
ditto for tonnage, 31 feet 8 inches; ditto moulded 31 feet ; 
depth of hold, 17 feet 5 inches; burthen in tons, 747 4 tons 
She is a sister ship to the Harrier, lately launched here and 
now fitting for sea at Portsmouth. She will be sent to the 
same port for a similar purpose, and is now m dock being 
iury -rigged for that end. 
APPOINTMENT. — Lieutenant Robert Robertson, who Las 
for several years past had the charge of the steam depart 
rneut afloat at Woolwich, has been appointed, with the 
sanction of the Admiralty, Surveyor of the Mercantile 
Marine of this country under the Board of Trade. 
i « mi m .11.. T~1 miiol O T* 
NAVAL OPERATIONS IN THE BLACK SEA. 
A telegraphic despatch, dated Vienna Sunday, announces 
that it was fixed that ninety thousand allied troops should 
sail from Varna that day on an expedition against the 
Cri Wheii in the harbour of Sebastopol on the 26th ult., the 
Terrible, the Fury, and the Cacique having on board 
Brigadier-General Sir George Browne and Genera lof Division 
Canrobert, and several other officers of the two allied armies 
tomake areconnoissance, the Russian batteries opened fire; 
one shot went right through the Fury at the water line, 
and another through her mam rigging; the Terrible had, 
likewise, a 6liot through licr rigging. , , 
Constantinople, July 31.-The day beforay^terdaythe 
Turkish fleet, under Hnssan Pasha, left, with all the flat- 
bottomed boats that could be collected, for the Black Sea. 
In letters from Si. Petersburg, published in the German 
papers it is said that the Russian Admiral at Sebastopol 
reports to the Czar, that divisions of his fleet make daily 
excursions ou the Black Sea, and < ften proceed to a great 
distance from port without meeting any of the ships ot the 
allied fleets. - 
jgqnnl. 
The AncTic Search.— Th^Diligence store-ship arrived* 
Woolwich on Sunday afternoon from Disco 
with the Phoenix screw steam-sloop, Captain Edwaid A. 
Iuglefield, and the Talbot, tender to the Phomix on Juby 7- 
the Diligence ou her return to England, and the Phccmx 
and Talbot proceeding up the Winnegat between Disco . and 
the Main, and ou their way to Beechey Island with stores 
for the relief of Captain Sir Edward Belcher s expedition. 
The last winter in the north had been the most severe 
experienced for many years pact by the inhabitant io _the 
Danish settlements, And the reports received at them from 
every quarter alluded to the uncommon seventy of the weathfii, 
even for these high latitudes. Capt. Iuglefield s expedition ex- 
perienced very boisterous weather during the passage of the 
vessels from England to Disco, and unfortunately the Talbot 
BDrune a leak which damaged about 6,000 lbs weight of 
biscuits, and to make up in some degree for ^ damaged 
biscuit the Diligence transferred all she could mn .to the 
Phoenix. The crews of all the vessels were quite well when 
arme oi inis couuuy iuiu« ‘ • 
DANTZic, August 10.— The Tweelmgen, Daniel and Wilkin, 
of Lemmer, H. F. Klein, master, arrived here yesterday from 
Riga ! With six others she has been for about two months 
lying in Riga, and has lately been allowed to leave Riga, and 
proceed ou her voyage by permission from Sir C. Napier 
Can this be true ! To those uninit iated in the secrets of the 
coalition Cabinet, it may seem that the blockade in the Baltic 
is as great a farce, and as ridiculous a waste of public money, 
as the establishment of an agency at Elsmeur to despatch 
supplies from Dantzic. . , ,, 
Gallant Saving of Life.— The senior lieutenant, Mr. 
Annesley, of the flag-ship Conway, at Queenstown, on heal- 
ing the report given by the gun-room steward of a boy being 
overboard; made the best of his way from the breakfast-table 
and gallantly dashed overboard, and succeeded m saving the 
boy as he was sinking. 
FRENCH NAVY AND MERCHANT SERVICE. 
The Black Eagle, Admiralty yacht, Master Commander 
Petley, having had fitted to her the “ velocimetre, m vented 
bv M. Droinet, a French scientific gentleman, went to Stokes 
Bay on Monday to test it, when it performed all the duties 
reported of it— viz., indicating the speed with clock-like 
accuracy most satisfactorily. 
A letter from Vamaofthe 29th ult., m tiieMoniteur, says 
“ The Vauban steam-frigate, which had quitted this place on 
the 7th, to conduct Turkish troops to Chourouk-su, returned 
here on the 24th, after having fulfilled its mission, She 
had ou board five Circassian chiefs, who came to present 
their respects to Marshal de St. Arnaud, and to expla- 
in his presence the sentiments of their nation toward* 
France and England. They have visited the aBied cam *, 
and admired exceedingly the appearance, duel ip me, and m 
n oeuvres of the two armies. On the 27th The Turfa* Ad 
miral, Ahmed Pasha, who had quitted Varna ^ the san - 
time as the Vauban, returned here with fhe ; Naib log*. 
Scb amyl’s lieutenant, on board. The Naib speaks ^b c*md 
Turkish, and is regarded by bis countrymen as the »P»*tuai 
head of the country. Fifty notables of the CaucasuH accom- 
pany him. All these personages have come and given t . 
Marshal de St. Arnaud the assurances of their devotedu ; , 
declaring to him they were ready to conform to his met ; 
tions. Before leaving for Constantinople, the Naib Lag 
visited the Marshal, with four or five of the principal ch 
These men are all remarkable for then* lofty stature and tL 
warlike and antique aspect.” 
STEAMERS. f 
Coals The consumption of coals at the coal depo » 
the PeninsuVar and Oriental Steam Packet Company 
India China, and Australia, is 10,000 tons n montffi « 
120.000 tons a year. At Southampton the C0 “ 8 '1‘ b 
coals by the steamers leaving that port is considerably aoo 
100.000 tons annually. . . _ nnTOX - ull 
Postal Performances.— The following is an J i 
^ i r mMcnnatmir m and m 
West India packets, l,100,uuu ; oyiue ; , i 
r y ““raclac packets 200,000; by , »a.l 
Oriental Company-. to and ke.-. 
Australia, 2,300,000 ; by the Cape of Good Hope p 
280,000; by the West Coast^Africa packrte ^ u 
Launch of the Tvne.-Newuastle-o^Ttn^uP u 
—Yesterday afternoon a very n0 J le ^UiveuF 
launched from the buildmg-yard of Mesws. 
Miller, and Salkald, at Walker, three miles below th » » ’ fo01 . 
She is for the West India I^yal Mad Company, ^“ d 320 
feet longer than the Great Britain. Her lengt in t , , 
breadth thirty-six feet, depth thirty feet, un J ’ 
1,850. She will carry 2,500 tons, and will h«e a ^ . 
tion for 300 passengers. She has four dec b«. Vl >- - - 
wheel steamer, and is forty feet longer than any 
hitherto built on the Tyne. fourteen scr* « 
Iron Screw Colliers. -There are fo J 8lDe8 , and 
colliers running between the Tyne and the Tb f co£l]a to 
during the month of July they j7 . ] ^ rtat ion by 
Loudon, equal to 8 per cent, of the entir V upW ard-' 
sea. Most of them make a voyage every weeK, 
